expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto Creator of Oscar-nom "MANK" idea. A Chicago record label, Drag City, eventually released a handful of Neil Hamburger albums as Turkington continued to develop the character. Message: Question mark emoji? WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT ALL REVIEWS REMAIN EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2022, View the first two episodes on Screeners.com, Episode 201: The Wizard of Oz Premieres Thursday, April 7, 2022. With this being your first lead role in a feature film, and your involvement with On Cinema at the Cinema, what has your own relationship with movies been like? I posted this thread about Gregg's noticeable difference in mobility from early On Cinema seasons to later ones. His clearest forefather is Tony Clifton, the alter ego of Andy Kaufman, who wore an even tackier tux and provoked crowds into heckling sprees. They nudge-nudge and wink-wink see, were just kidding! I dont think its funny unless it has total commitment.. He was also a tour manager for both Link Wray and Mr. Bungle. Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington Announce New Season of On Cinema The 13th season premieres on Hei Network on October 26 By Matthew Strauss October 12, 2022 Tim Heidecker and Gregg. Along with this reaction to popular entertainment, do you personally see Entertainment as reactionary to art-house movies that might have lost their value overall? Still, putting Hamburger in someone elses hands wasnt easy for Turkington. We may earn a commission from links on this page. The latest addition to the elaborate mythology is Deck of Cards, a new film that was written and directed by Turkingtons in-universe alter ego. A sequel followed in 1987. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Simone Turkington. He wakes up the next morning to find children smearing chocolate on the window of the car he was sleeping in. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. The film has an 80% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on forty reviews, with the consensus: "As brilliantly and uncomfortably confrontational as its protagonist, Entertainment is a boundary-blurring exercise in cinematic misanthropy that more than lives up to its title. Gregg Turkington (born on November 25, 1967) is an Australian-born U.S. comedian, best known for his stand-up comedy character, Neil Hamburger. But then the movie could be misinterpreted as a promotional vehicle, and who wants to see a vehicle for some act theyve never heard of? As he swims to the edge of the pool, images appear of him dripping wet on stage, wearing the same white outfit seen before, and exiting a jail cell. I think some of that came out in the editing more than was in the script. If you do something for long enough, you want to take it in different directions, just as a Beatles record from 1963 is completely different from one in 1968. When it comes to your acting in the movie offstage, was that a particularly different comfortability than doing standup scenes? Rent from $2.99. When making this film, what was your dream in terms of making something that an audience could connect to, but not allowing them to get too close where the distance is a part of the very experience of Entertainment? Heidecker and Turkington are waking up earlier and coming for all kinds of entertainment. Characters make shitty movies that they can then review on their own movie review show, which streams on a website that the fictional hosts of the show created. Turkington rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as the publisher of underground zine Breakfast Without Meat which brought punk respectability to "square" musical artists such as Tiny Tim, Jimmy Webb, the 101 Strings, and Richard Harris through feature articles. [3] A female member of the family watches the main character sleep as an image of him in a hallway dressed entirely in white appears on-screen. He later leaves a fifth voicemail for his daughter in a public restroom. That made me very excited about the project, because people had approached me before about possible expansions of the Neil Hamburger character into film or TV. However much money comes in, thats how much we get to spend making shows. But somebody writing about the new Bond movie? The Neil Hamburger character plays the role of Osric in the 2014 film, Hamlet A.D.D., a live action and animated version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Eddie tries to help him by taking him to his hotel room, but the comedian eventually lashes out at his partner as well. Id like to see the tables turned a little bit so now they can feel the revulsion that I feel when I walk into Walgreens and Justin Bieber and Diplos music is blaring through the speakers, and Im paralyzed with horror like, Why do I have to fucking hear this? Eddie the Opener gets a relatively positive reaction from the crowd, but the main character receives very little positivity himself, expressing the same in-character frustrations with the audience. You cant make a credible movie like that. And he was right, but he had to draw that idea away from me, and then we had to figure out an offstage version of this person, which I dont think is very much like me at all. So I strained a muscle in my neck (slept on it wrong, probably) and couldn't turn my head or move my neck. Turkington had a small part in the 2015 film Ant-Man by Marvel Studios, and starred in the drama . It just makes no sense and that's not what performers do, especially ones as calculating as those two. And while the years-long, multimedia-spanning nature of On Cinema and its universe of side projects occasionally makes What is real here? a difficult question to address, Turkington definitely appears to be doing his portion of Cursed Films in character, as the awkward, smug movie buff that fans of the series have come to love and occasionally fear. Anyone know him? Though hes probably baffled as many people as hes entertained, Turkington has achieved legitimate success in this odd role. And especially when it would be some big budget movie that you would almost expect that would get panned on the show, but then it would be marginalized as Dog of the Week I dont know, that always got to me. He has many credits in film, television, and even as a musician. Add Prime Video. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, Conversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the, The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star The manager of the venue tells him, "We're not paying for that" before the performer leaves. Alverson, Turkington and Tim Heidecker co-wrote the film. When the 13th season of On Cinema launches exclusively on the HEI Network on Oct. 26, its focus will widen to encompass all of entertainment, and not just the movies. The basic plot of Entertainment a comic on tour is rather simple. The intended original run time of Deck of Cards was 105 minutes. Some reviewers have been disturbed because they think this is what my life is like when Im touring, he says. In Rick Alverson's "Entertainment," alternative comedian Gregg Turkington plays a character he's toured through hundreds of bars, rock concerts, and general booze-soaked cesspools for more than a decadea lounge act from hell known as Neil Hamburger. Will fans be confused by Entertainment? The comedian goes to a bowling alley and a shooting park the following day before crashing a chromotherapy seminar that night and falling asleep in the midst of it. The dialogue in the movie is improvised, and really more based on descriptions of the tone or the mood that was needed in particular scenes, and kind of running with that. One thing led to another as the night progressed, a source said of their kiss. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. What is the Spanish language plot outline for Deck of Cards (2022)? Turkington explained that the idea to make a movie about playing cards sprung from a joke about John Hustons 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning., I remember thinking, how arrogant do you have to be to think you can condense something as massive as the Bible into one movie, he said. Whats the difference between Courtney Love and the American flag? Hamburger asks in a smarmy, creaking whine. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. And I loved this movie. He contributed lead vocals to two tracks by the Secret Chiefs 3. I try to do things that I like or have some sort of novelty, he says. by Amy Nicholson. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Growing up in Arizona, he spent hours in thrift stores obsessing over cheap records by unknown artists. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. From an early age thats what I really wanted to read, and I think I really absorbed a lot of that in terms of seeing where people make mistakes later in their career, and let down their guard and become weary of the whole thing, and then where things start to disintegrate for them. These are two people who really should not be around each other, Turkington said with a laugh. Hosts #OnCinema #OurCinema. Sundance: Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington, and Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada help make this laconic indie feel quietly magical. [10][4], In 2022, Turkington appeared as his On Cinema persona in the episode about The Wizard of Oz of the Shudder movie documentary series Cursed Films. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. If you do not yet have a Torstar account, you can create one now (it is free), Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. In addition to the flagship show, the On Cinema universe has produced six seasons of Decker, a deliberately terrible spy series written and directed by the fictionalized version of Heidecker; The Trial of Tim Heidecker, a four-hour extravaganza that sees Heidecker on trial for poisoning 19 teenagers with counterfeit vape pens at an ill-fated music festival; Mr. Authors Aljean Harmetz and Stephen Cox discuss Margaret Hamiltons fiery mishap and address the rumors of drunken Munchkins tearing up the Culver hotel. [14][4] While unnamed, the character in the film is a clear adaptation of the Hamburger character. We dont really think anyones being tricked herealthough weve reached out to the shows producers for a comment about Turkingtons appearanceand if you squint, you can see a point being made about the same sorts of online reality-fraying that led to the hanging myth in the first place. As each season progresses, Tims latest obsession begins to take up more of his attention, which causes Gregg to passive-aggressively seethe about the lost time that he could be using to discuss his knowledge of terrible 90s movies. Birthplace: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Watch in HD. Though he never planned to become Neil Hamburger, Turkington was always fascinated by characters like him. It is loosely based on Turkington's Neil Hamburger character. He has provided various voices for the animated series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Adventure Time, Sanjay and Craig, and Gravity Falls. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google [4], Entertainment premiered at the Next Section at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2015. He is known for his performances as Neil Hamburger, a stand-up comedian persona he developed in the 1990s. Then there's the scene when The Comedian is lashing out at the woman in the audience. How much do you see the structure and tone of Entertainment as a reflection of playing the Neil Hamburger character over and over and over? Gregg Turkington Appeared in Movie Ant-Man Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Character Dale Gregg Turkington portrayed Dale in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . To order Congrats to the crew for finishing their first charter and getting their first love triangle. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Following in line with how On Cinema critiques those who do not engage with the art they love critically, Entertainment is, in one form, a critique on what people expect from entertainment, and how theyre programmed to act in a certain way with the comfortable and uncomfortable. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old? 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